I love my parents. For what it’s worth, they’re 2 of the smartest people I know – when it comes to general knowledge and crosswords anyway…

My parents aren’t great with technology though. It’s not even a case of ‘I was brought up with tech and they weren’t’ because my Mum was the I.T teacher at my school for years and even taught me how use Ctrl+Alt+Del.

That was years ago and somewhere along the line, their ability to understand technology evaporated, along with their common sense.

On Friday, I practically begged my parents to go and rent me Inception on Blu-ray from Blockbuster because I obviously felt like being confused out of my mind by an 120 minute movie.

Rock Band. Developed by Harmonix who are owned by MTV, the Daddy of all things music-related. Published by EA, who know a thing or 2 about creating successful franchises with the Need For Speed, FIFA and the Skate series being just a few of their best series’.

However, despite all of the knowledge and experience possessed by EA, MTV and Harmonix who’ve undoubtedly made the best music game on the market with Rock Band 3, they just couldn’t make the game sell well, with RB3 selling just 7,386 copies in the UK during its first week, across all formats.

As I just said, I think that Rock Band 3 is a tremendous game and it even took home the award of ‘Best Music Game’ at this year’s Spike VGAs so click ‘Read More’ to find out exactly why you should buy it.

The video game character every woman wants to be and the CGI rendered woman who every man wanted to be ‘with’ is back. Game Informer has got a 10 page world exclusive reveal of the Lara Croft Franchise’s makeover – the issue including it hits newsstands on Dec’ 11th – and this is a little taster of what the mag has to offer.

As I write this I’m watching the gaming edition of Panorama. For those of you who aren’t frequent watchers of BBC 1 on a Monday evening ; Panorama is a show that looks at the problems in society today. Typical topics are ‘why is knife crime on the rise?’ and the investigation of ‘FIFA’s dirty secrets’.

Just 4 minutes into the show, titled ‘Addicted to Games? Panorama’, I was already venting my frustrations with the program as they talked about one student who had self-diagnosed himself as an ‘addict’ due to him spending a heck of a lot of hours playing Modern Warfare 2, a game which they neglected to say has an AMAZING multiplayer and offers one of the most fun experiences online ever. You know, because the fact that he’s having fun might be the reason for his incredible playtime as opposed to having an actual addiction?

Based on the first 10 minutes alone, it would have been easy for me to label the producers of this edition of Panorama as idiotic, foolish and extremely close-minded people who blatantly spend more time reading books titled ‘101 Ways to Become an Uppity Jerk’ than they do actually exposing themselves to the wonders of playing video games, but frankly, the reason for their very biased opinion on the ‘crippling’ symptoms of being a gaming addict is that they simply just don’t understand.

Reason number 4 to follow me ( @Jasmino924) on Twitter, after the fact that I host competitions, ReTweet epic gaming news and tweet out links to new posts on J Station X – I ‘m now finding you super-cheap deals on the games that you want for Christmas (as submitted by my lovely Twitter followers).

Below (after the break) are a list of the best deals I could find for the games that were submitted

You’d be forgiven for leaving your PSP in the darkest corner of a cupboard, unused and accumulating more dust than a Dyson vacuum cleaner.

I haven’t bought a game for my PSP in ages and it only gets used when I’m either incredibly bored, on a long car journey or if my iPhone (God forbid) runs out of battery or goes on the fritz.

New gadgets, new gizmos and a whole lot of distractions (Twitter, I’m talking to you!) means that our PSPs are rarely used though they actually have some of the best games ever seen on a portable console. No, really.

Most of the good games on PSP are either part of the God of War franchise (Chains of Olympus, Ghost of Sparta) or are one of the many PSP minis ; cheap downloadable games that take up 1GB or less of your PSP’s hard-drive

Age of Zombies is one of these awesome minimal-data games and frankly it’s amazing.

While Nintendo are obviously kicking some serious butt in the motion control gaming race (their console being made for it and all) it looks like Sony are kicking dust into Microsoft’s ‘X’- branded faces when it comes to ‘who can sell the most motion gaming peripherals for consoles that have other ways of controlling them’.

Sony have sold 4.1 million PlayStation Move kits and approx. 41.6 million PS3 consoles have been sold worldwide and so around 10% of all of us PS3 gamers own the tech uses to wave at our TVs to hit table tennis balls (in Sports Champions), attack robots (in Start The Party) and pull ridiculous faces (in TV Superstar). I for one am proud to say that I own PlayStation Move! Even if I haven’t played it in weeks…

UPDATE – Sony have clarified that they’ve only shipped that number and that they’ve actually sold a figure that’s closer to Kinect’s 2.5 million.